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Jul 21, 2020
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Jul 21, 2020
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Joshua Johnson
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Joshua Johnson, a free black who made his living as a portraitist in the racially tolerant environment of Federal-era Baltimore, had a talent for the tender delineation of family ties. Here, the small boys each extend an arm to their father and rest a pale hand on his sturdy form. Their father's hand, open in his lap, suggests a gentle accessibility. Johnson modeled his compositions on portraits by the Peale family of painters, for whom he initially may have worked as a servant in Philadelphia....
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Jul 12, 2020
07/20
Jul 12, 2020
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Daniel Ridgway Knight
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Like many Americans of his generation, Daniel Ridgway Knight sought his academic training in Paris, where he remained as an expatriate from 1873. The Well , which is typical of the sentimentalized peasant subjects that occupied French-trained Americans and pleased their audiences at home, demonstrates the detailed character of Knight’s early work. In keeping with the rigorous French academic method, he executed extensive preparatory subjects prior to undertaking the finished painting. After...
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Feb 21, 2020
02/20
Feb 21, 2020
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Gilbert Stuart
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Gilbert Stuart portrayed George Washington several times in this stately, full-length portrait format known as the Grand Manner, initially reserved for royalty. In this case, he used European models for the setting and figure, and then adapted the iconography for an American subject. Standing in the classical pose of an orator (with arm extended), Washington appears in formal civilian clothing, but holds a sword that recalls his military achievements and suggests the might of his presidency....
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Feb 21, 2020
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Feb 21, 2020
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William Glackens
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Is this a modern Eve about to take a bite of the apple? William Glackens certainly counted on his viewers to make that association. Moreover, he offered a fresh American update on the subject of the nude studio model, paraphrasing one of France's most famous paintings, Edouard Manet's Olympia. Object metadata can change over time, please check the Brooklyn Museum object record for the latest information.
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Jan 25, 2020
01/20
Jan 25, 2020
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Thomas Moran
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Watercolor was the ideal medium for the late nineteenth-century landscape painter Thomas Moran, a follower of the British painter J. M. W. Turner who was drawn to dramatic natural features in places such as Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. In this view of the lagoon and central buildings constructed for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893—an extravagant, nationalistic salute to the westward advance of “civilization”—Moran bathed the scene in the glowing colors of a vivid...
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102
Jan 2, 2020
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Jan 2, 2020
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Abbott H. Thayer
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Oct 18, 2019
10/19
Oct 18, 2019
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Antoine-Louis Barye
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May 3, 2019
05/19
May 3, 2019
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Edward Hicks
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From about 1820, the self-taught artist and Quaker preacher Edward Hicks painted approximately sixty versions of The Peaceable Kingdom in an effort to reconcile his artistic vocation with his ardent faith. The subject is based on verses from the Old Testament Book of Isaiah that describe an Edenic world in which predatory animals (a leopard, lion, and bear) coexist in harmony with meeker creatures (a lamb, kid, and calf) and children. In the background, the earthly realization of this prophecy...
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Feb 17, 2019
02/19
Feb 17, 2019
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Edgar Degas
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Embracing the Impressionist credo of painting modern life, Degas concentrated on the daily rituals of urban dwellers. In this image, typical of his bather scenes, Degas captures his subject from behind and in motion as she vigorously towels herself after a bath. Bright light pours in from the window, highlighting her left breast but otherwise casting her body in shadow and limiting clear definition of both facial and bodily features. This composition thus denies much of the erotic charge...
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105
Dec 18, 2017
12/17
Dec 18, 2017
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147
Dec 18, 2017
12/17
Dec 18, 2017
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James Frothingham
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Nov 4, 2017
11/17
Nov 4, 2017
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John J. Audubon
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Jan 23, 2017
01/17
Jan 23, 2017
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James Tissot
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1.3K
Mar 2, 2016
03/16
Mar 2, 2016
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Indian
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Aug 24, 2015
08/15
Aug 24, 2015
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Muhammad Rafi`
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759
Dec 6, 2012
12/12
Dec 6, 2012
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Yi Chong
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The sixteenth-century ink-wash painting, a type rarely found outside Korean collections, uses strong, deliberate brushwork to convey ideas of space and perspective. Yi Chong, a Buddhist monk who came from a renowned family of artists, was a respected court painted during his short life. His work was heavily influenced by the Chinese tradition of the scholar-artist. The style of this painting invokes the Zhe School of Ming dynasty China, and the subject alludes to a poem by the Chinese poet Li...
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261
Dec 8, 2011
12/11
Dec 8, 2011
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Charles Willson Peale
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The wife of a wealthy Continental army officer and the mother of eleven children, Mrs. David Forman was portrayed by Charles Willson Peale in an interior that was meant to suggest the elegance and bounty of her domestic life. Peale was one of the rare American colonial artists to include paintings in his portrait interiors. The presence of the landscape hanging behind Ann Forman signaled the cultured life of the Forman household, and the gently idealized curves of its composition offered a...
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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Lilian Haines Crittenden
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This ink-wash drawing by Henri is highly suggestive of the works of James McNeill Whistler and of the Japanese prints that inspired him. While teaching at the Women’s School of Design in Philadelphia in 1893, Henri served as host to the noted Japanese artist and lecturer Beisen Kubota, who gave a demonstration of quick-sketch brush-and-ink technique. For a brief period after meeting Kubota, John Sloan and Henri carried around a brush and bottle of ink to make on-the-spot sketches. Object...
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George Maduro Peixotto
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Jacques Courtois, called Il Bourgognone or Le Bourguignon
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Eugène Louis Boudin
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Fascinated by Dutch painting, Boudin made frequent voyages to the Netherlands to paint its cities and countryside. The artist visited Dordrecht several times, eventually completing dozens of works devoted to the city. He painted several views of the Grote Kerk from a number of points of view—here, from a canal. Boudin’s practice of painting a motif from several viewpoints proved influential to his younger colleague Claude Monet, who later became known for his series of paintings devoted to...
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Henri-Joseph Harpignies
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
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The most successful portraitist in early nineteenth-century Spain, Goya painted the royal family as well as the era’s most distinguished civil and military leaders, including the subject of this work. Tadeo Bravo de Rivero wears the brilliant uniform of a cavalry officer: a scarlet coat trimmed with gold and silver braid (here adorned with the medal of the prestigious Order of Santiago), tight-fitting leggings, high boots with gleaming spurs, and a ceremonial sword at the hip. His...
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While crossing the Sea of Galilee in a ship during the night, Jesus and his disciples are overtaken by a storm. Tissot omits any sign of landfall, heightening the sense of danger in the rough, stormy sea. Awakened by his followers, who fear for their lives, Jesus quiets the tempest with a dramatic and dynamic gesture and rebukes his companions for their lack of faith. Tissot’s commentary connects this shipboard miracle with the miraculous draught of fishes, noting: “It was in the same boat,...
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George Morland; John Rathbone
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Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
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Ferdinand Heilbuth
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Boris Israelevich Anisfeld
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102
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Charles Autenrieth
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Jean-François Raffaëlli
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Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
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Auguste Roubille
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi
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Jacob Steinhardt
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Nehemiah Partridge
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Wyntje (pronounced "Vintka") Van Vechten, of Catskill, New York, was eighteen years old in 1720. So says a Latin inscription in the lower right corner of this portrait. It helps us to link this work to other similarly inscribed Hudson Valley portraits that share the wooden, heavily outlined forms, broad brushwork, and visible dark underpainting employed by a painter named Nehemiah Partridge. Like numerous colonial artists, Patridge remained nearly anonymous because he traveled to find...
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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Ralph Albert Blakelock
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Otto Marseus van Schrieck
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In the mid-nineteenth century, still-life painting underwent a revival in the northeastern United States, a vibrant displays of flowers, fruits, and tableware became the preferred decoration for the dining room. Working in style indebted to Dutch models, which presented a multitude of fruits and flowers, the émigré Severin Roesen cultivated a popular following with the German community in Pennsylvania. This composition, one of his most elaborate, portrays a grand arrangement of various...
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Following Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the chief priests and scribes meet to discuss their response to the challenge of his increasing popularity: they resolve to find a way to destroy him. Once more, Tissot focuses on the costumes of the priests, with their elaborately woven and draped textiles (fringed with fur, in the case of the white-bearded priest at center), and the lavish building materials of the Temple complex, with its marble columns topped with carved capitals. The...
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Mary Magdalene kneels before Christ and anoints his feet, wiping away the excess oil with her hair, a gesture of deference and devotion. The disciples—especially Judas Iscariot, Tissot notes, in a commentary based on John’s account—are indignant at the gesture’s expense, asking could not this costly ointment be sold and its profits given to the poor? However, Jesus defends Mary’s prescience: “She did it,” he tells them, “for my burial.” Object metadata can change over time,...
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